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It's striking how much mental health advice directed at kids and teenagers boils down to saying "you have to be okay with people treating you like you're not fully human because they're right, but it's okay because one day you will be human", then being genuinely surprised when it doesn't help.
the older i get the more it's terrifying to me how much child surveillance is normalized. scared for your child's mental health? here's more tools that will make them feel even more watched at all times. child is experimenting with their gender identity while away from you? we made it this other adult's job to surveil them for you. kid is "enjoying" their "free time" instead of doing homework? we've put parental controls on the things that they like so that you can monitor their private time. like can we fucking stop
Please Stop Blaming Us For Your Strange Behavior is a mnemonic to remember the planets in the universe where they're named Plercury, Stenus, Blearth, Urs, Fupiter, Yaturn, Streptune and Buranus.
Keep it to yourself
I can tell youre knitting with no love in your heart i can see the hateful intentions in every stitch.
why does tumblr look different every two weeks but none of the essential features get fixed or worked on. we've been asking for a way to search in our likes for ten years. there are still no functional group chats. blog search is still only showing half the posts with the searched word in it. you still cant block a person from interacting with your sideblogs and you still cant block someone completely if theyre using a sideblog. you cant even send an ask from a sideblog. oh but thank goddddd the buttons are two pixels closer now and the notes bubble looks uglier with every update i dont know what i wouldve done without rounded post edges
"It took them, and their parents, and their parents, and their parents their entire lives to grow? Wow, that's inefficient considering we'll blow through it, along with everyone else we take from in less than a month."
Inheritance tax literally increases wealth inequality, the exact opposite thing it's ostensibly supposed to accomplish. When people inherit small businesses the tax is based on the net worth of the business. People often literally don't have the money to pay the inheritance tax because they didn't inherit money, they inherited non-liquid assets (I.e. the business).
It's extremely common for families to be forced to sell the business they inherit because they literally can't afford the inheritance tax. Who buys the business? Incredibly wealthy people, or large corporations/holdings companies. This either allows the wealthy to get even wealthier, or centralizes ownership of production to an incredibly small number of massive corporations/holdings companies. Neither of those things are good.
Laurie, you Commie bitch, the entire government runs on unearned wealth.
Wealth is private property. In "inheritance tax" is no different from you leaving a photo album to your kids and the government coming in and taking the first ten pages of pictures before tossing it on the ground.
I have another food related hot take for you all this week: sugar does not make kids hyper. yes 🖐️ including your kids. yes including whatever anecdote you're going to tell me. it's been studied, sugar does not make you hyper. there are a multitude of factors related to what you think of as sugar hyperactivity that basically boil down to you train kids to be hyper when they get sugar by making it a forbidden food. you treat it like a stimulant and you make it clear you expect them to be hyper so they are. and because it's a forbidden food they usually only get it at special occasions like parties which are a fun exciting time to run around with other kids.
you're conditioning them to act hyper, the sugar isn't doing it
it's not addictive either idgaf what an influencer told you
kids deserve so much more respect and it turns out that saying that is a great way to locate the horrible people in any community <3
you'll say something as simple as "no child deserves to be hit" and people will crawl out of the woodwork to explain why they should be allowed to beat a 6 year old for spilling some water
you'll say "i think it's weird that adults literally have control over when children are allowed to use the bathroom" and up pops a teacher to say that when they're not shouting at the kids they teach, they're trying to stop them from hiding in the bathrooms
you'll say "i think children shouldn't be forced to eat food they hate" and here comes someone who feeds their kids plain rice and boiled chicken (while eating a nicely seasoned stirfry) claiming that it's okay actually and kids shouldn't be allowed to taste things
you'll say "i think kids should have bodily autonomy" and in comes someone who pierced their babies ears before it was even 24 hours old, frothing at the mouth because their kid wanted a haircut and thats somehow an insult
children are an oppressed class and everyone should be looking back at their own childhoods and making sure they don't ever make a child feel the same way they felt.
Making a post about this since several people seem to be confused or unaware of how bad what tumblr did to John Green was; he has OCD and this website gleefully harassed him with accusations of pedophilia because Hazel and Augustus have non-explicit sex in The Fault In Our Stars until he had a mental health breakdown and left Tumblr. The cock monolog was NOT a one off event he overreacted to(though I would argue it's homophobic as the entire joke was "man likes penis" like how tf else are we supposed to interpret that) it was part of a targeted, abelist harassment campaign against a mentally ill author who simply committed the crime of being too popular and writing teenagers accurately.
Like...not to get too heavy but being a pedophile is the most common intrusive fear OCD causes, I should know, I have it and those intrusive fears(not using intrusive thoughts becauss that term has been ruined and imo doesn't convey what's actually going on, they aren't thoughts they're obsessive phobias with no basis in reality) are the worst ones. Makes me break out into a cold sweat and feel like I'm going to cry and vomit at the same time. Sometimes makes me scared to even be around kids even though I know I am not going to harm them because OCD fears are not usually about things you're actually at risk of doing, just things you're terrified of doing accidentally somehow. So harassing someone who has been very open about his OCD like that specifically with unfounded and untrue accusations of csa is an ableist hate crime as far as I'm concerned. Every single person who took part in that should be fucking ashamed and I assume they are given that all most people remember is the fucking cock post. Ofc it gets boiled down to that, to hide what people were actually saying and how bad it was. It's just a guy overreacting to a silly post about sucking dick, nevermind that he's a YA author with a debilitating mental illness, nah. He's just being a wet blanket.
I won't say the Green Brothers are perfect they've both dropped the ball imo on a few occasions, but that's normal for huge public figures and does not justify what happened. No one should ever take pride in that moment, nor should they behave as though it was just one stupid post, and if you didn't know what actually happened that's because people act like it was just a stupid post, but it wasn't. It was so much more than that.
He also said at one point that the cock monologue was not the last straw. The last straw was somebody mailing him a photograph of his house. With his son's window circled. And a note about that's where they were gonna enter the house to start killing his family from.
So. You know. THAT'S what they're claiming is "just funny bullying he couldnt take ha ha".
The thing I really don't understand about people who defend that post is that they have a built-in 'excuse': it happened over a decade ago. Personally, I thought it was exactly the sort of thing that would get you fired for sexual harassment back when I first encountered it and thus was gross and inappropriate, but whatever, I was already an adult who'd graduated college at that time, whereas there's plenty of people much younger than me on this site. I'm not the person I was a decade ago, who wasn't the person I was a decade before that. Over the years my politics have changed, my outlook on religion has changed, my understanding of my sexuality has changed, and it would be ridiculous to hold me as still accountable for the positions I held as a teenager or child.
But a lot of people on this site adamantly refuse to admit that they were wrong, that they were bullies, that they sexually harassed a man, and I can only come to one conclusion based on that: because they haven't changed. They are still bullies. They still think it's funny to sexually harass others. They cannot admit that they were childish and immature and wrong because they are still fundamentally the same people they were back then. After all, if they had changed, if even the keel of their ship is made of different wood today, then they would have no problem condemning their younger self to affirm that they are better people.
Wtf was tumblr back in the day Jesus Christ
Tumblr is still like this. One of my mutuals got a graphic rape threat sent anonymously to their inbox yesterday for the crime of being Jewish. I got multiple death threats a couple months ago for stating the fact that the USDoD is the largest single employer of trans people in the USA.
🫂 that's so fucked up
You are far kinder than the average Tumblr user. This site has a really disturbing culture of casual cruelty
I reblogged something a while back and expressed doubt because I couldn’t find a source (I honestly can’t recall what it was; it was on my main, and it was something completely inconsequential). Someone popped in my inbox with a source and some obnoxious monologue about how I must feel stupid and a few neat little ableist comments. I was like, Thanks for the source. Wanna try that without being an asshole next time?
Cue increasingly graphic threats in my inbox, escalating every time I didn’t reply.
All because I said I couldn’t find a source on something.
It’s one of those things that I don’t want to mention because it sounds dumb as fuck. But plenty of people take sadistic glee in harassing people for being “wrong” — factually, or for being or expressing something they don’t like. If you don’t reply, a lot of them DO escalate. Which says to me, at least, that they’re doing it specifically for a reaction and not as a little one-off because they’re feeling pissy. They want to hurt you. And if you don’t give them that, they get angry.
you as an adult should not only acknowledge, consider, and value the opinions of young people and children, it is YOUR responsibility to consider them especially since they have little power to advocate for themselves in many contexts. This goes so far beyond politics. In everyday life you hold a position of power over children in ways that often allow you and other adults to dismiss and ignore them at your whim. Children have little control over what happens to them, only you can ensure their interests are accounted for. Especially if you’re their parent.
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Corporal punishment, "parental controls", any voting age above 0, etc are only "legal" due to bad faith interpretations of the constitution driven by ageism.
it is ableism to consider being unable to learn a concept--any concept--morally inferior. it is, fundamentally, ableism to see people who cannot read novels or theory or watch "serious adult" movies or participate in other forms of media consumption as less "good" than people who can. it is ableism to insist that it is aspirational to be intelligent.
if you see people who are unintelligent as lesser, in any way, that is ableist. hard pill to swallow for those who aren't developmentally disabled, i know. i don't want to coddle y'all about it anymore, though.
(x) anyway whatever this was funny and really sweet though
Adultism is..
The assumption that kids being in school is inherently better than kids not being in school
Thinking it's a human rights violation when employers limit access to toilet facilities, but an overexaggerated non-issue when teachers do it
Being able to say "Children should be seen and not heard" without getting the same backlash as any other bigot
The existence of the Troubled Teen Industry
Thinking intergenerational friendships are inherently suspicious
Referring to violence against children with cutesy nicknames like "spanking"
Treating kids "talking back" to their parents as the height of disrespect
The belief that a respectful child is an obedient child
Media with realistic portrayals of child abuse being deemed inherently "less kid friendly" for it, rather than being used to educate kids in similar situations
The fact it's still not completely normal and expected for a kids show to be able to have a character get a nosebleed onscreen
Being able to forgive parents who yell at, threaten, or hit their children, but not kids who are "disobedient" or "disrespectful" to their parents
some of you are dangerously susceptible to men hating terf ideology
like yesss girl!💅 SLAY! yess ew all men gross! all men in relationships do this one thing that every other man in the world does!💖🥰 #i hate men ‼ #men suck 😘🙌 ok now tell me your opinions on trans people
trans allies and/or are trans people themselves are not immune to terf propaganda
